Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Until death it is all life.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.